Jubilant Galaxy
There they were, twenty five planets, all of them Jubilant! Parades in the streets, lots of "Great day, isn't it?" and a general sense of well being towards their magnanimous leader, me.
I was annoyed.
Why are they ALL happy? Doesn't happiness become meaningless without sorrow?
So I began contemplating a bell curve. What if we could divide the colonies into categories like so:
05% Jubilant
15% Happy
60% Indifferent
15% Unhappy
05% Angry
Then anything I did in the form of treaties, war, technology that improves/impacts morale, etc could affect changes in the curve. Maybe one of my indifferent colonies switches to Unhappy. Or I build something on an Angry world that makes them move up to an Unhappy colony.
Maybe colonizing that world might involve wondering about the general impact of how pleasant/unpleasant it is. Can my race sustain another unpleasant world? Will they just become so miserable they deport?
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